I read some stuff the other day about how the talented crew over at Estately recently launched into the Portland, OR market, and one of the stupid MLS rules (my opinion) they had to face triggered some memories of frustrations I had faced when I…

Today, Paul Rademacher, a Technical Lead for Google Earth, announced the release of the Google Earth browser plug-in on the Google Lat Long Blog: Today, I’m happy to announce the release of the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the full power of Google…

In the never ending quest to find new and useful tools to Blog about, and to share with REALTORS® all across the Country, I thought it might be useful to list some of the Top sites I have discovered over this past year. If you’re…

Probably as a result of coming on a day where the NAR-DOJ agreement stole the headlines, there was an announcement today in the real estate tech world that went largely unnoticed — Local Matters and Point2 announced “an Agreement of Sale and Cooperation for Point2’s…

About a month ago, I got tipped by a developer buddy of mine, Stephen Parker about a powerful new platform called GoodBarry. Originally out of Australia, this platform markets itself as providing a complete online business solution to turn your website into an efficient money…

In case you missed it, there is a new aggregator on the scene in the real estate industry — RealSeekr, which was announced early this week and was covered on Agent Genius yesterday (and there are already 30 comments). When I was in New York…

Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb has put together a great post for anyone looking for a crash course in social media. Here are the lessons in Social Media U: Personal branding (a topic I’ve written about before) Know what web 2.0 is and how to…

Looking for a cool web site analytics package? Look no further than Woopra. Currently in “live beta”, you’ll need to go to the site and request an account. And be prepared to wait — the waiting list is long. It took me about a month to…

I’m not sure how many people saw the news that Google Spreadsheets can now be edited by anyone, but the concept of a a wiki-style spreadsheet caught my attention. You now no longer have to “invite” people in order to have them contribute and edit…

Here’s some more great advice by the SEO-guru’s at SEOmoz. If you are considering adding a blog to your website, watch this short video to avoid making some common SEO mistakes. Note: the audio on this video is not so good but it gets better….